Coping With Losses: A Major Key to Successful
Trading.
Provided By: Norman Hallet
Be
warned.
"Part of overall
winning is taking losses along the
way."
"If you have 55%
winning trades, you'll win in the
long run."
We've heard it said
a million times in a hundred different
ways.
In any trading system,
we will experience losing trades as
well as winning trades. We know this.
So why is it that as
we moved forward from trade to trade,
we become frozen with doubt when the
losing trades appear in bunches?
If you think about
it, when winning trades appear in
bunches, we get motivated and we look
for reasons to find the next trade.
We're on a roll and we love it. We're
on top of the world.
The words "genius"
and "professional trader"
seem to fit us perfectly.
Conversely, when losing
trades appear in bunches, we become
fearful of the next trade and look
for reasons to shy away from following
our system.
We become filled with
doubt and the words "gambler"
and "loser" seem to describe
us best.
OK, so why?
It's because you are
viewing your trading outcomes as reflections
of you as a person.
This leads to the destruction
of virtually all failing traders.
Negative personal evaluation
leads to your being emotionally out
of control, which leads to straying
from your tested trading system .…
and the result…. you're trading
by the seat of your pants (which should
be pulled down and you spanked!).
You see, you must develop
the mindset (and the true understanding)
that you are a winning trader whether
you are experiencing a run of losing
trades or winning trades.
Your self-image of
a winning trader allows you to glide
through losing streaks so you can
be there for the winning streaks.
Most new and "intermediate"
traders do NOTHING about their mental
trading fitness. They are willing
to spend thousands of dollars on "holy
grail" systems and out-of-town
seminars, but are totally neglecting
mental conditioning.
You should be training
as hard on your mental fitness as
you do on preparing your trading signals.
As a broker/trader/CTA
for 21 years, I have probably seen
50+ trading systems that were money
makers, IF you had the mental/emotional
strength to follow them!
You need to find a
system that suits your personality
(more on this next week), back-test
the system, appropriate the money
to trade the system, and then GO FOR
IT.
The "go for it"
part won't actualize without the mental
strength to take the good with the
bad.
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